I spend a lot of time looking around online for inspiring performances to share, and I’m often surprised and delighted to discover new performers and ensembles. Today I am happy to share a glorious performance of Beautiful Music by Gramophone Ghana, singing George Frideric Handel’s iconic oratorio MESSIAH. Gramophone Ghana is a Ghana-based choral and […]
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Soprano Nicole Heaston brings a phenomenal sense of drama and passion to her performances that will knock your socks off. It’s the icing on the cake to her talent and facility as a singer. Nicole Heaston is featured singing Beautiful Music by George Frideric Handel from his opera ALCINA. It’s a February, 2015 performance of
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This is Beautiful Music performed by legendary singer, Simon Estes. The renowned musician is joined by another legend, trumpeter Maurice Andre, performing THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND from George Frideric Handel’s oratorio MESSIAH. The Estes and Andre families had something else in common: they were coal-mining families. Dr. Estes’ father was a coal miner, and Mr.
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Harpist Ann Hobson Pilot played in the Washington National Symphony before joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1969. She became its principal harp player in 1980, a position she held until her 2009 retirement. You’ll hear Ann Hobson Pilot play music by Arcangelo Corelli on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Raphaël Feuillâtre is the 2018 winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) competition. The French virtuoso started learning the instrument at age 9, and quickly showed his exceptional musical talent. In addition to his international performing career, Raphaël Feuillâtre also teaches guitar and enjoys creating transcriptions of music for his instrument. This is
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Kayoko Dan stands confident and poised in front of the orchestras she conducts, drawing on her extensive training as a conductor and educator, and her innate passion for music. So it’s a bit disarming that she describes herself as “shy” and “introverted.” She says she simply knows when and how to assert herself to get
Soprano Jeanine de Bique is such a beautiful and multi-talented artist. Her voice is supple, strong and lovely, and her artistry is thrilling. Today’s Beautiful Music features Jeanine de Bique singing the arias OMBRE, PIANTE and SPIETAT, IO VI GIURAI from George Frideric Handel’s opera RODELINDA with Le Concert d’Astree, conducted by Emmanuelle Haim. Jeanine
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Awadagin Pratt has been playing piano since he was 6 years old. He excelled in music as well as tennis, but eventually chose to attend Peabody Conservatory of Music, where where he became the first student in the school’s history to receive diplomas in three performance areas – piano, violin and conducting. In 1992 he won
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Although bass-baritone Dashon Burton spent many of his formative years in New York, he is a citizen of the world now. The talented musician has sung operas, given recitals, and performed with ensembles including Philharmonia Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society, and Boston Baroque, and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic,
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Flutist Demarre McGill is Principal Flutist of the Seattle Symphony, and the brother of clarinetist Anthony McGill, who was featured on yesterday’s Beautiful Music post on this blog. Demarre McGill’s many awards include an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence. He offers Beautiful Music today by Johann Sebastian Bach — a
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